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CHRISTY'S CYCLOPEDIA 

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IlOW^ TO DO eve]ryth:iiv&5 : 

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HOW EVERYTHING IS DONE, 



Containing the most Valuable Information 

on all subjects of interest, with about 

one hundred and fifty of the Best 

EVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. 



jrST WHAT ETERYBODY IVEEDS AXD WAIVTS. 

Knowledge that has Cost the Author Thousands of Dol- ^ 
lars by experience and otherwise. 



^ ^XEP ^AK£ rOK .^VKHY ^AMILY. 



SlSli: CONTET^TS. 



PRtCE OJVE M>OIjL.,1R, 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 

T. J. CHRISTY, Olney^ Ills. | 



Printed by O. T. B>.gk, Journal Office. jj 



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Eutereil acconlingf to act ot Couo^ress, in the year 1871, by 

T.J. CHRISTY, 
Mj the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



PREFACE. 



PREFACE, 

In presenting this work to the Public, I feel coDfident 
that it will be thankfully received, and appreciated by all 
who peruse its pages. iSever betorb has so much valuable 
information been published in so small a work; it contains 
all new and valuable discoveries of the age, together wMth all 
Secrets and Eeceipts of all professions and businesses. There 
are several Eeceipts in this little book, that are worth ten 
times its weight in gold, and no family should be without 
them. My desire is to give the public the benefit of all ray 
knowledfije, and experience of several years of traveling 
through about sixteen States in the Union, and in mingling 
and dealing with all kinds and classes of people. Several 
times 1 have paid exlravagent prices to obtain some mans 
t^eeret of doing or cureing something. 

And whereas the public is being continually imposed on, 
1 propose to furnish th^m with a ready adviser upon all sub- 
jects, and which will save them dollars upon dollars, if gov- 
erened by its dictates. 

It tells you how all kinds of valuable remedies are made. 
It tells 3'ou hovv all kinds of Soaps are made. It tells the 
secrets of all professions and trades. It tells just what every 
body wants to know. 

This book will be mailed free to any address in the TJ. S. 
OQ receipt of price, One Dollar, by addressing 

T. J. CHRISTY, Olney, Illinois. 

AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER. 

1871. 



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PAGE. 

Ague Pill 17 

A^ne to cure without, quinine ..17 

Asthma to cure ....11 

Burns to cure 1(3 

Boils to cure 2<J 

Burns and scalds to cure - 24 

Blacking waterproof. 27 

Blacking for metal founders 22 

Bunions to cure IS 

Butter how to keep 39 

Blueing liquid tor clotlu^.s 42 

Brealving liorses 42 

Big shoulder in horses 48 

Blind stagers in liogs to cure. 51 

Bots in horses to cure 49 

Biscuits how to make excellent 38 

Balm of beauty how to make 35 

Cement for iron 2G 

Cement for iron and stone 23 

Cement for metal and glass 23 

Cement Diamond 23 

Corns and warts to remove 20 

Corn salve 20 

Cat*:irrh tocure 18 

Cosmetic solution 10 

Colic in children 15 

Colic in horses 40&49 

Cholera and cholera infantum 9 

Cough syrup 11 

Cough tonic 11 

Cancer to cure 12 i 

Cancer symptoms • 12 

V'holera niorbus 15 

Cocoa-nut Cake 37 

Cocoa-nut pie • 37 

Cake favorite 37 , 

Coughs in horses 45 

Corns in liorse* •• 45 

Coughs in horses 45 

Cramp in horses 40 

Chow-chow to make 35 

Cologne how to make the best 82 

Dvsentery to cure 14 

rMarrhea when accompanied with water discharges 15 

Diarrhea when accompanied with pain 20 

Diptheria —1(> 

Dve for the hair 29 

Dveing carpet warp, green, purple, yellow, and pink 30 



CONTENTS . 



Dye tor woolen cihiison and scarlet 36 

Dyes red 87 

Distemper in horses to cure 40 

Eyes a valuable remedy for 10 

Eges how to keep 89 

E^os to preserve 38 

Flux to cure 14 

Fits to cure 17 

Frosted feet and salve to cure 18 

Felons to cure 24 

Fluid for writing and coppying 27 

Feathers to clean 35 

Foot evil and ii^tnla to cure .48 

Founder in horses to cure 48&49 

Flies to keep fi-oni horses 4(5 

Glue liquid 23 

(^ingerljrcad how to make 38 

Glanders in horses 49 

German ijuOs the best way to make 37 

Hair to dye 29 

Hair to grow soft and glossy 34 

iJair how to color 35 

Hair restorative 30 

How four ponds of butter is n«ade from one gallon of milk. 42 

Horses to break 42 

Hide bound how to treat 45 

Hog cholera to cure 50 

Horses 1 he end of 50 

Horses to get out of fire 49 

Hooks in horses to cure 49 

Honey artificial how^ to make 32 

Ink c'oppying and all other kinds 28<t2y 

Inflamation of the eve in horses 46 

King of pain or ready relief 10 

Linament corosive 46 

Liquid bluing for clothing 42 

Mucilage how to make 29 

^leat how to preserve 32 

Milk to preserve 51 

Neuralgia to cure 17 

Neuralgia toothache or curial relieved. 25 

Ointment spermacetic to make. 22 

Oil macassar for hair. 20 

Oil star hair 30 

Omlette soufle to make 3;^ 

Pencil marks to fix on paper 33 

Poison for bugs 20ct27 



CONTEXTS. 



Plating silver how done 26 

Pains to remove 10 

Piles internal and external. . 18 

Plaster sticking or court 19 

Paint cheap white house hovv to make o9 

Pudding how to make 38 

Plaster for corns 19 

Plating without a battery 21 

Plating on iron or steel 22 

Plaster Paris how to mix to prevent drying too fast 23 

Pain killer magnetic 25 

Klien!natism a sure cure for 9 

Rheumatism speedy cure for 25 

Ring bone treatment for 45 

Rusk how to make 38 

Rolls to make tine and delicious 37 

Small pox and seasickness to cure 32 

Sea sickness curable 21 

Summer complaint how to cure 10 

Snake bites to cure 20 

Salve for sore lips and scalds and luii us to cure 24 

Silver solution for plating 26 

Silver wash how to make 30 

Soap of all kinds how to make 40&41 

Spavin bone to cure 43*Sr44 

Strains and sore tongue in horses to cure 45 

Shaving cream how to make 30 

Tape worm how to remove. '. 16 

Tooth drops how to make 25 

Tooth paste how to make • 26 

Transferring engravings 31 

Transfer on Plaster Paris 32 

Varnish for iron work 30 

Vinegar how to make 41&50 

Vinegar how to make out of cider 51 

AVen how to cure 20 

Wines how to make , 33 

Whiskers forced to grow 34 

AVashing fluid how to make 41 

Washing compound how to make very good 39 



HOW TO SELL PATENTS. 



How to sell Patents. 

In order to sell County and State rights on any improve- 
ment, you must first show up the merits of your invention 
by demonstration, then you must prove to the satisfaction of 
your customer to whom you are trying to sell a State or 
County right, that he can make money by investing, from 
the fact that you have the best thing in that line and that it 
sells readily at a fair profit; this you can do by making a 
thorough canvas of some town or county, selling and get- 
ting as many orders as you possibly can for the machine up- 
on which you have an improvement; and in so doing you 
convince the public that money can be made out of |your in- 
vention with energy and industry, witnout which all inven- 
tions and improvements are a failure; never start out telling 
everybody that you have a patent that you want to sell; nev- 
er make use of the term patent right, but always speak of 
your invention as a valuable improvement; if it is a plough 
say plough, if it is a wagon say wagon, or whatever it is, call 
it by its proper name, endeavor to make the impression that 
you have got a good and valuable improvement, and that you 
are doing a fair, honorable and legitimate business, and if 
you have what you claim you claim you have, you will have 
no difiBculty in disposing of terrritory at reasonable rates. 
Some men more especially patentees make- a very sad mis- 
take by asking too much for State and County rights. Sell 
cheap and sell fast; a man had better close out the United 
States in a few months time at an average of from five to 
ten dollars per county, than to sell a State or few Counties at 
an enormous price, then let the thing die on his hands, from 
the fact that the parties to whom he has made a sale report 
the thing a swindle and a humbug for the reason that they 
have paid more money for the teritory than they can possibly 
realize even by a close and energetic canvas of their terri- 
tory; by this means they become discouraged and conclude 
that they are swindled, and so they report it, although the 
transaction and sale was made perfectly fair and honorable. 
Now the report goes about that you have a humbng, and 
that you are swindling the public with it. Whilst if a sale 
was made at low and reasonable rates the parties would go 
to work and make money and report favorable and advertise 



HOW TO SELL PATENTS, 



5'our invcntiori, and would be the means of your selling a 
great deal more territory, and as soon as they had canvassed 
and disposed of what they had purchased return and pur- 
chase again, and soon 3-0U would gain the confidence ol the 
public; and everybody would be running after you to buy 
territory, because now it is a demonstrated fact that every- 
body is making mone^' out of it, and soon a small fortune 
will be realized. There are some classes ot invention that 
a man never ought to offer to sell territory onj such articles 
as would come under the head of merchandise, that can bo 
manufactured, shipped and transported for less money than 
the}' could be got up for all through the country-. On these 
class of improvements you should either sell the entire patent 
out to some company or have it msnufactured on a royalty 
and put it into the market the same as Ploughs, Eeapers, 
Mowers, etc., for whenever you propose to sell State and 
County rights on such inventions and improvements, you 
virtually prove to the public thatyou have a humbug and 
that there is no protection in it for the claims on it aa se- 
cured are not worth a fig, from the fact they could not 
be used without infringing on a half dozen other invent- 
ors or more. 

Caution to the Public. 

I would hero caution all persons who are about to 
purchase territory on some patent, to be very careful in 
examining the claims to see that the}^ are good and that 
the machine as constructed does not infringe upon the 
claims of other inventors, for the value of an improve- 
ment consists in its protection as well as its merits, 
for a patent that infringes on the rights of others is 
worthless, without license has been obtained from the in- 
fringed parties, to manufacture, vend and use the same. 
A man runs just as much risk in buying territory on a 
patent without first making a thorough investigation of 
its protection and claims, as he would in buying a farm 
and paying for it without examining the records, to see 
that there are no mortgages or leans against it. Never 
buy a patent unless you are certain that it doef= not in- 
fringe upon other mens rights, and this you cannot posi- 
tively know without an investigation at the Patent OflSce. 



HOW PATENTS ARE SOLD. 



Kever buy a patent because some friend, neighbor or ac- 
quaintance advises 3"ou to do so, for as general thing they 
are interested in getting a part of your money; many 
times a man gets sold out by his pretended friends, as a 
Ijeneral thing the seller divides with those kind of friends. 
I never knew a man to go around among his neighbors and 
ailvise them to buy a patent right or even recommended it 
highly unless he was interested in getting a portion of the 
proceeds realized from the sales. 

Worthless patents are generally sold by neighbor helping 
sell neighbor. What I mean by that is this; one neighbor 
will go to another and insist on him going his havers lu buy- 
ing a State or counties as the case may be and if he succeeds 
in getting his neighbor to join him as a general thing he gets 
his half for nothing and a portion of the money that his patner 
has paid. 

]^ow my readers I would advise you never to go into part- 
nership with any man in buying a patent, if you cannot 
buy one on your one hook let it alone, never buy on the judg- 
ment of others, for if you are not qualitied to deal on your 
own judgment 3'ou had better let it alone. No man ever got 
rich a speculating when controlled and governed by the 
opinions and notions of others; it is well enough for a man to 
listen to and learn all he can, but never invest money unless 
3^ou do it on your own judgment especially in patent rights. 
Whenever a person proposes to sell you a county or State on 
some patent right and begins to figure and explain to you 
how you can make a small fortune in a very short time, just 
ask him to please explain to you how it is and why he don't 
want to make that money himself, and that you do not know 
of any person that is any better qualified to do so than him- 
self, and you will soon find him hunting for another custom- 
er, for the facts are this as a general rule to which there 
may be a few exceptions; a man never will go around 
through the country peddling out patent righths on a patent 
that is of any value, for if it is a good and valuable improve- 
ment, there is no necessity for so doing, for if he is not able 
to manufacture and introduce the article himself, there are 
a plenty of firms and companies that will do so and pay him 
a fair royalty on it. 



RnUMATISM. AND CHOLERA. 



A Sure Cure for Klieuniatisni. 

There are a large number of livin^^ witnesses who can tes- 
tify to the merits of the followin.cr prescription, which was 
handed to me by Mr. Jones, of Olnej^, Ills., who may be 
addressed as to its meritsj as it has been retained as a fam- 
ily secret for years, he desires that the afticted public may be 
relieved by its publication. Saltpeter 1 drachm, j')ulverizen 
Opium 2 grains; mix and devido into iour powders, taiie 
one powder every four hours in a little cold tea, if necessary 
double the dose and repeat until relieved. 

Here is another remedy that is highly recommended for 
Rheumatism. Ofie oz Spirits Turpentine, one oz Cayenne 
Pepper^ one oz Oil Sassafras, one oz Oil Hemlock, one oz 
Oil Organum. Pat all into one quart of Alcahol; shake well 
before taking. Doso, one good swallow before meals, 
three times per day, 

Itlieumatic Liniment. 

Take oil of linseed, oil of cedar, and oil of Amber, 
of each 1 oz; Gum Champhor 1-2 oz, dissolve in 1-2 oz of 
Sweet oil, by rubbing in a mortar, first adding to the 
Champhor a few drops of Alcohol, so as to powder it; Spirits 
Turpentine and Laudanum, each 1-2 oz; mix and shake well. 
Eub the parts affected thoroughly. 

TlieBest Remedy lino^vn for Cholera and Cholera 
Infantum. 

1 oz Laudnam, 1 oz Spirits of Camphor, 2 oz Tincture of 
Ginger, 2 oz Capsicum. Dose for adult, teaspoonfuU in a 
wine glass of water 

I think the above will be improved by adding about four 
drachms of Chloroform. Every family should always keep 
the above in the house; it would save them many a dollar 
find sometimes life. Yery often in those cases, the Ph}si- 
cian gets there too lato. 

A tea made of Vervain root is a sure relief for Colic, per- 
sons subject to colic will use this tea every day for several 
weeks will never have it again. 



10 SORE EYKS, AND PAINS. 



A Valuable Ueniedy for Sore Eyes. 

This remedy will never fail if used in time. 1-2 oz Sul- 
phate Zinc, 1-2 oz White ConperaR. 1-2 teaspoonfull of Laud- 
anum, 1 pint of rain water. Make strong enough to feel 
the burning a little for about an hour after using. Bathe 
the eyes twice or three times per da}', until the intiamalion 
is gone. I have known the above eye water to cure aome 
very sore eyes, with two or three applicatiotis. 

la old standing cases of ulcerated or granulated sore eyes, 
it is sometimes necessary to use in connection with the eye- 
water, a little caustic, b}' turning the eyelids up and blow in 
with a goosquill. Bathe the temples with Iodine. In bad 
cases, take pine gum, plaster it on a cloth, drop two or three 
drops of Croten Oil on it, and apply to the back of the neck', 
let it remain until slightly blistered; bathe the eyes night 
and morning with warm soft watt«r. Use light diet, and i 
keep bowels rei(ular. Eat no grease. ! 

I paid S75 for the above to a Physician, who was noted 
for his success. 

McSJride's Eclectric Relief, or King of Pain. 

I obtained this from a gentleman in Kansas, he sa3's he 
paid $500 for the receipt. 12 galen Alcohol, 8 oz Aqua 
Ammonia, 4 oz Oil Organum, 2 oz Oil Cedar, 2 oz Oil Sas- 
safras, o oz No. Six, 3 oz Chloroform, 1-2 oz Oil Annis, 1 oz 
Oil Hemlock; then take 10 live Bee-<, put them into a pint of 
soft water and boil down to one gill and add to the above. 
Shake well and you will have what McBride made -S10,000 
with in St. Louis, and about as much or more in eveiy city. 

I have tested the above and fiivd it just as good as any re- 
lief known, for all kinds of aches and pains, it is a very use- 
ful medicine to keep in the house; it will do all tnat an3^ of 
those quick reliefs will do. 
1^ 

ReiBiedy for Diarrliea and Siiiuztier Coxnpiaisit, 

1 teaspoon ful best Rhubarb, 1 oz Cinnamon or Nutmeg; 
steep in half pint of water, when cold strain and add I tea 
spoonfiill soda, 1 tea epoonfull Essence Peppermint, 2 tea- 
spoonsfull best Brandy, and sweeten with loaf sugar to suit 



COUGHS AND ASTHMA. H 



theta^te. .Dose, one tabiei^poonfull, repeat as often as the j 

bowels moves, until they are checked. I 

The above is highly recommended by families who have j 

used it for years. , 

Coagli Syrup. 

Syrup of Squills, 2 oz, Tartarized Antimony, 8 grains ; 

Sulphate oi ^Morphine 5 grains, pulverized Gum Arabic 1-4 • 

oz. Honey 1 oz, Water 1 oz; mix. Dose for an adult, 1 i 

small teaspoon ful, repeat in half an hour if it does not relieve. I 

Child in proportion. i 

Another Couair Sx'rup. — Put 1 quart Iloarhound for 1 ■ 
quart water, and boil it down to a pint, and 2 or 3 sticks of 
Liquorice and a tablespoonful of essence of Lemon. Take 
a teaspoonful three times a day, or as often as the cough 
may be troublesome. This receipt has been sold for §100. I 

Cough Toxrc. — 1 quart of Ivye Whiskey, 1 quart of strain- | 

ed Hone^^, 2 oz Pine Gum, mix the whiskey and gum tigeth- '• 

er in one bottle, and put the hone^' in another, and cork ; 

them air tight, put them into a kettle of cold water and boi! i 

them a few minutes, then take out and put them together. [ 
Do^e tea^^poonful three times a day. 

The above is highly recommended. 

To Cure Asthma. 

Take Elecampane, angelica, comfre}', and spikenard roots, 
with hoarhound tops, of-each 1 oz ; bruise and steep in honey 
1 pint. Do-^e, a tablespoonful, take.i hot every few minutes, 
until reliefis obtained, then several times daily until a cure 
is affected. 

The above is recomniended as a sure cure. ]t is also an 
exci^llent remedy for all kinds of coughs. 

Another Cure. — Oil of tar 1 dr; tincture of veratrum 
viride 2 dr; simple s^-rup 2 drs; mix. Dose for adults 15 
drops, o or 4 times dail3'. 

This is highly recommended. 



12 CANCERS. 



Cancers to Cure, 

Everything is not a cancer that is called cancer, A good 
man^^ of our cancer Doctors who have gained a littie noteri- 
ety in curing a few old sores, pronounce everything cancer. 
1 was told of a gentleman a short time ago, that was advised 
to go and see a cancer doctorj as he had what was supposed 
to bo a cancer on the jaw. Accrdingly he called on the old 
doctor who told him t'jat he had a cancer sure enough, and 
he w^ould cure it for one hundred dollarsj fitt}^ cash in hand, 
and fifty when the cure was affected. As he was short for 
money he could not comply with the doctors terms, and 
went avvay thinking he ^vould make some arrangements to 
raise the money. After some consideration he concluded to 
call and see another doctor; who made no pretention as a 
cancer doctor, but he was a good practicing Physician, he told 
him that he had no cancer, and to step with him into a den- 
tist's office, which was close by; the dentist examined his 
jaw and found that there was a root of an old tooth in the 
jaw; which was the cause of the so-called cancer, and in a few 
minutes he extracted the tooth, and cured the cancer for 
fifty cents. And now my reader, ray desire is to benefit, 
and save you monev, by cautioning you against the imposi- 
tions that are practiced all over the country. I now will 
proceed to give the best known remedy for cancers, and if 
you are governed by the instruction 5'ou can cure a cancer 
just as well as cldj cancer doctor in the U. S. for I give 3'ou 
what they concede to be the best known remedy. 

Cancer Symptoms. — A tumer surrounded with enlarged 
veins, it is also very painful, the skin being sometimes dis- 
colored and puckered. The whole tumer is particularly 
heavy, and at last breaks into a malignant ulcer, or sore, 
whoso edges are raised, raged, uneven, and curl like the 
leaves of a flower; white streaks or bands cross it from the 
center to the cercumference, accompanyed with acute and 
darting pains. To relieve the pain. Opium may be taken in 
large doses. The sore should be defended from the air, by 
some mild ointment. Powdered chalk, scraped carrots, 
fresh hemlock leaves and powdered charcoal may be used for 
the same purpose. 



CANCERS. 13 



Cancer, Hoiiv to Cure. 

Eed clover i8 said to be the latest and most valuable (dis- 
covery for the cure of cancer. Take the roots of red clover 
and boil them down to a strong tea, then take some of the 
tea and boil down as thick as you well can; then put it into 
a puter dish and eet it in the sun until it evaperates pnd 
thickens up to about the consistency of honey; now let the 
patient drink of the tea about three times per day, before 
meals, and at the same time use the thickened compound on 
the cancer, as follows: Never apply any medicine directly 
on the raw sore, but commence applying the remedy all 
around the sore part of the cancer, as far out as the flesh 
seems to bo affected, untill the roots of the cancer are killed; 
and this you will know by the sore gradualy drying up, then 
commence applying the remedy to the sore and still con- 
tinue to apply all around and over the sore, until it is en- 
tirely dried and healed up, using of the tea as before stated 
all tho while. 

Anotlier Process Recoiiimeuded for tlie Cure of 

Cancer. 

Ashes of red-oak bark, boiled down to the consistency of 
molasses, and cover the cancer with it, in about an hour 
afterward, cover it with a plaster of tar, which must be re- 
moved after a few days; and if any partuberance remain in 
the wound, apply more potash and the plaster again until 
this shall disappear. 

Another remedy as given by an old doctor in Ohio, who 
has retired on a fortune realized from his curing can- 
cers, which is as follows : Take a dozen or so of copper 
cents, and put them into about half gallon of strong vinegar 
lot remain about 24: hours, then take out and separate the 
verdigris from the vinegar, and apply the verdigris all 
around and over the cancer until cured; washing and dress- 
ing once a day with castile soap. 

I know several persons cured of cancer by application of 
what is commonly known as sheep-sorel, an herb that gen- 
erally grows around in the fence corners; 3'ou take this herb 
and beet it up and get the juice all out, and put in a puter 



14 DYSKNTARY, 



dish, set it in the sun until it thickens up like molases, then 
apply as you would other remedies. 

This preparation never fails to cure Pole evil, or Fistula. 



Another Kemedy, as given by Dr. Chase. — Take red 
oak bark ashes. 1 peck; put on them boiling water 6 quarts; 
let it stand 12 hours; then draw off the ley and boil to a 
thick salve; spread this pretty thick, upon a thick cloth, a 
little larger than the cancer, and let it remain on three 
hours, if it i& too severe, half of that time; the same day, or 
the next, apply again three hours, which will generally 
effect a cure; after the last plaster, wash the sore with warm 
milk and water; then apply a healing A&We made of mutton 
tallow, bark of elder, with a little rosin and beeswax, (some 
of white lilly may be added,) stewed over a slow fire; when 
the sore begins to matter, wash it three or four times daily, 
renewing the savle each time; avoid strong diet, and strong 
drink, but drink a tea of sassafras root and spicewood tops, 
for a week botore and after the plaster. 

A Gentleman informs me that he has effectually cured 
himself of an obsiinate cancer, 'M)y the free use of potash," 
made from the ashes of red-oak, boiled to the consistency of 
molasses, used as a poultice, covering the whole with a coat 
of tar. Two or three applications will remove all protuber- 
ances; after which it is only necessary to heal the wound 
with common salve. 

Cure for Flux and Dysentary. 

Gum opium, 1 oz; gum kino 1 dr; gum camphor 40 grs; 
powdered nutmeg 1-2 oz; french brandy, jamacia spirits, 1 
pint; color with cochineal or saffron. Before taking, cleans 
the bowels with caster oil. For a grown person 20 to 40 
drops, three or four times a day. For children four to six 
drops; administer in a little mint tea, in which is mixed as 
much prepared chalk as will lie on the point of a teaspoon. 

This is the remedy known for dysentary, and sells at re- 
tail for $1,00 per bottle. 

Cure for Dysentery. — Take new churned Butter, before 
it is washed or salted, clarify over the fire, and skim off the 



CHOLERA MORBUS AND COLIC. 15 



milky particles; add 1-4 Brandy to preserve it, and loaf 
Suo-ar to sweeten; let the patient if an adult, take two table- 
spoonsful twice a day. The above is a sure cure, and is sold 
at a great profit. 

Croup is often cured by giving Urine and Molasses, equal 
quantities. Goose oil is sometimes used instead of Molasses. 
Dose, from a tea to a tablespoonful of the mixture, accord- 
ing to age, repeat every fifteen minutes, if first does not 
vomit in that time. 

Simple, Uiit Effectual Remedy for Cliolera Morbus. 

Take the yellow of one egg, beat it up well and mix in 
one teaspoonful of black pepper. Dose, teaspoonful of mix- 
ture, after each operation until relieved. 

I obtained this of Mr. Wilkerson of Olney, he says he has 
known it in use in his and other families for the last fifteen 
years, and has never known it to fail giving relief. 

For children that has the summer complaint or diarrhea; 
parched flour will relieve them, and sometimes cures when 
nothing else will; feed it to them any way you can get 
them to eat it. 

Colic in Children.— Give a scruple of powdered anis seed 
in their meat, or a small dose of magnesia; or a drachni of 
anisated tincture of rhubarb every three hours till it 
operates. 

Aromatic Syrup of Ehubarb.— Or as commonly known, 
"spiced syrup of rhubarb," much employed in summer coni- 
plaints in infants and children. The dose for an infant is 
from half to a tea-spoonful, repeated every two hours till the 
passages indicate, by their color, that the medicine has 
operated. 

For Diarrhea, When accompanied by watery discharges. 
Take 4 ounces chalk-mixture, 1 ounce tincture kino, 1 ounce 
tincture catechu, 2 drachms laudanum. 

Dose, one tablespoonful for an adult, after every thin 
stool. 



16 TAPEWORM DIPTHARIE, AND BURNS. 

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Take pumpkin seeds six hundred, sugar one hundred 
grains, ethereal extract of male fern, sixty grains; water five 
fluid ounces; bruise the seed in a marble mortar with the 
sugar, add a fluid ounce of water, and when a homogeneous 
paste has been obtained add the extract of fern, and gradual- 
ly mix in the rest of the water. The emulsion should be 
taken without straining, early in the morning in four doses 
at intervals of fifteen minutes; the bottle being well shaken 
each time. Two hours after, take a heavy dose of oil. 

Another Simple but Effectual Eemedy. — Take a pint 
of Pumpkin seeds and clean the outward shell off and pulver- 
ise or beat them up, then add half ounce of male fern root 
powdered finely, when that can^t be had, tke extract will 
answer, mix all together, and eat as you would mush. It is 
best for the patient to do without eating from twelve to twen- 
ty-four hours before taking the mixture. It should be taken 
in the morning on empty stomach, and in two hours after- 
ward take a heavy dose of oil or some good and effective 
purgative, then look out for the worm. Care should be 
taken while at the stool not to break the worm into before 
it is entirely past. It is best for the patient to take a purga- 
tive the day before you take the worm remedy. 

Cure for Burns. — The whites of egsrs have proved of 
late the most efficacious remedy for burns. Seven or eight 
successive applications soothes the pain and effectually ex- 
cludes the burned parts from the air, and ^vill be found fra 
preferable to coUod'ion or cotton. 

Cosmetic Lotion, similar to Palmey's. — Corrosive sub- 
limate 1 gr; oil lavender half drachm; caster-oil one drachm; 
alcohol two ounces. 

This preparation has a great reputation for the cure of 
tetter and for eruptions on the skin. Care should be used, in 
its application, not to let it get into the eyes or mouth. 

To Cure Diptlieria. 

Take a common tobacco pipe, place a live coal in the bowl, 
drop a little tar upon the coal, draw the smoke into the 
mouth, and discharge it through the nostrils. 



AGUE CURE AND FACIAL NEURALGIA. 17 



Lemon juice in diptheria; gargled in the throat, and swal- 
low a little, is recommended as a sure cure. 
From the french hospital. 

PositiTC Cure for Ague without Ctuinine. 

Peruvian bark, 2 oz, wild cherry tree bark 1 oz, cinnamon 
1 dr, capsicum 1 teaspoonful, sulphur 1 oz, port wine 2 qtsj 
let it stand two days. Buy your peruvian bark and pulver- 
ize it yourself, as it is often adulterated otherwise. Dose, 
one wine glassful every two or three hours after fever is off, 
then two or three per day till all is used; a certain cure. 

Before taking the above, cleans the bowels with a dose of 
epsom salts, or other purgative. 

Another Sure Cure.— Take pulverised galangal root! 
pound and put it in one gallon of alcohol. When the chill 
comes on bathe the feet in warm water; go to bed and cover 
up, and take a tablespoonful every fifteen minutes till 
the chill goes off; you will only have to take about three 
doses and you won't have any more chills. This never fails. 

I am informed that our ex-county clerk, Mr. Johnson, 
while returning homo from the army, obtained a simple but 
never failing remedy for a^ue, which he says he has tested, 
and never known it to faif. Made as follows : Take corn 
husks and boil down to a strong tea, and drink freely of it 
when the fever is off, or whenever you have any symptoms 
of a chill. 

Ague PiLLs.-Extract cornis florida 40 grs; piperine, 20 gre; 
quinine 20 e:rs; make into 20 pills. 

Sold at enormous profits. 

Facial Neuralgia. 

The following is an excellent preparation for facial neu 
ralgia Take chloroiorm two drachms, tincture cinchona 
two ounces, watei two ounces; mix. Take a desertspoonful 
every three or hours four hours until the pain ceases, ihis 
preparation will relieve nervous headache. 

An exclusive milk diet, without any solid food will cure 
epileptic fits. 



18 FROSTED FEET, PILES AND CATABRH. 



Frosted Feet. 

To relieve the intense itching of frosted feet, dissolve a 
lump of alum in a little water, and bathe the part with it, 
warming it before the fire. One or two applications are sure 
to give relief. 

S&.LVE FOR Frost Bites. — Long known and highly valued 
in Germany. — Twenty-four ounces mutton tallow, twenty- 
four ounces hogs lard, four ounces peroxide iron, four ounces 
Venice turpentine, two ounces oil bergamont, two ounces 
bole armenia, rubbed to a paste with olive oil. Melt togeth- 
er the tallow, lard, and peroxide ot iron, stirring constantly 
until the mass assumes a perfectly- black color; then add grad- 
ually the other ingredients, stirring until well mixed. Spread 
on linen, and apply daily. Its etfect upon even the most 
painful frost sores is most extraordinary, and will, doubtless, 
be found equally benoficial in other sores. 

Ointment for External Piles. 

Stramonium ointment, half an ounce; ointment of galls 
half an ounce; sulphate morphine ten grains; make ointment. 
Apply night and morning. 

Bolus for Internal Piles. — Powdered castile soap one 
ounce; powdered muriate ammonia, one ounce; powdered 
jalapa, one ounce; balsam copabia, sufficient to make into 
bolus. Insert one every night. 

To Cure Bunions. — Bunions are usually hard to cure, but 
the following receipt has proved efficacious in many cases. 
Make an ointment of half an ounce of spermaceti and twelve 
grains of iodine, and apply twice or three times a day. 

Catarrli. 

Catarrh in the head can be cured by inhaling the smoke 
of muriate of ammonia, four of five times a day. 

Twenty-five drops of tincture of lobelia, and two grs of 
the sulphate of quinine, taken four times a fiay, will cure 
the asthma. 



COURT AND CORN PLASTER. 19 

Sticking, or Court Plaster. 

This plaster is well known from its general use and its 
healing properties. It is merely a kind of varnished silk, 
and its manufactx)ry is very easy. 

Bruise a sufficient quantity of isinglass, and let it soak in 
a little warm water for four-and-twenty hoursj expose it to 
hoatover the r re till the greater part of the water is dissipat- 
ed, and supply its place hy proof spirits of wine, which will 
combine with the isinglass. Strain the whole througU a 
piece of open linen, taking care that the consistence of the 
mixture shall be such that, when cool, it may form a tremb- 
ling jelly. 

Extend the piece of black silk, of which you propose mak- 
ing your plaster, on a wooden frame, and fix it in that posi- 
tion by means of tacks or pack-thread. Then apply the isin- 
glass (after it has been rendered liquid by a gentle heat) to 
the skin with a brush of fine hair(badgers' is the best). As 
soon as this first coating is dried, which will not be long, ap- 
ply a second; and afterwards, if you wish the article to be 
very superior, a third. When the whole is dry, cover it with 
two or three coatings of the balsam of Peru. 

This is the genuine court plaster. It is pliable and never 
breaks, which is far from being the case with many of the 
spurious articles which are sold under that name. Jndeed, 
this commodity is very frequentl}^ adulterated. A kind of 
plaster, with a very thick and brittle* covering, is often sold 
for it. The manufacturers of this, instead of isinglass, use 
common glue, which is much cheaper; and cover the whole 
with spirit varnish, instead of balsam of Peru. This plaster 
cracks, and has none of the balsamic smell by which the gen- 
uine court plaster is distinguished. Another method of de- 
tecting the adulteration is to moisten it with your tongue on 
the side opposit to that which is varnished; and, if the the plas- 
ter be genuine, it will adhere exceedingly well. The adul- 
terated plaster is too hard for this; it will not stick, unless 
you moisten it on the varnish side. — The Painter, Gilbert, 
and Yarnisher's Companion. 

Corn Plaster. 

Beeswax 1 pound; resin, 4 ounces, turpentine 8 ounces, 
sulphate of copper 8 ounces, arsenic 1 ounce. Mix with heat. 



20 THREE MIXUTE SALVE , WENS AND SNAKE BITES , 

2nd. Yellow wax 1 pound, burgundy pitch 6 oz, turpen- 
tine 4 oz, powdered verdigris 2 ounces. Mix with heat, 
then spread the composition on linen or leather, and polish 
the surface. Cut it into small pieces. 

Corn Solvent. — Potash 2 parts, salt sorrel 1 part. Mix 
in fine powder, lay a small quantity on the corn for four or 
five successive nights, binding it on with rasrs. 

Never cut your corns to remove them, when they become 
hard, soak them in warm water, and then with a small 
pumice stone rasp down the corn. Try it an.l you will 
never use a knife afterwards. 

The green mountain salve refered to in connection with 
bone spavin treatment, is almost a certain cure for corns. 

The Celebrated Three Itliuute Salve. 

1 pound of caustic potash 4 drs; belladonna, 2 ounces pure 
oxide magaiiese, mix with 1-2 pint of water. Applj^ to 
shaved corn or wart a few minutes, then wash off and soak 
in sweet-oil. 

It is put up in drachm bottles, with showy labels, and re- 
tails at 50 cents; wholesales at 25. 

To Cure a Wen. 

Wash it with common salt dissolved in water, every day, 
and it will be removed in a short time. Or make a st -ong 
brineofalura-salt; simmer it over the fire. When thus pre- 
pared wet a piece of cloth in it ever}" day, and applj' it con- 
stantly for one month, and the protuberance will disappear. 

Hoiir to Cure Snake Bites or any Rind of Poison. 

No family should ever be without hartshorn in the house; 
for it is the most valuable remedy known for all kinds of 
poisons: For snake bites take 6 to 8 drops in a little water 
about every 5 or 10 minutes until relieved; at the same time 
apply freely to the parts affected until the swelling is all 
gone. This never fails to cure. 



SEA-SICKNESS, PLATING AND GILDING. 21 

Sea-Sickness Curable. 

I am much surpised at the opinion which is prevalent, of 
the utter incurability of sea-sickness. 1 believe the opinion 
to exist among the non-medical part of ihe community from 
sheer ignorance, and amongst seagoing surgeons from a sup- 
ineness in applying remedies — a fault to which they are rath- 
er too subject. In the greater number of in^tances I allow 
the stomach to discharg its contents once or twice, and then, 
if there is no organic disease, I give iive drops of chloroform 
in £ little water, and if nece>sary, repeat the dose in four or 
six hours. The almost constant effect of this treatment if 
enjoined with a few simple precautions, ^s to cause an imme- 
diate .sensation, as it were, of warmth in tLe stomach, accom- 
panied by almost total relief of the nausea and sickness, like- 
wise curing the distressing headache, and usually causin^j- a 
quite sleep, from which the passenger awakes quite well. 

Platiii^:; and Criiding %vitliOUt a Battery. 

Watt's Electro Metallurgy says: A very useful solution of 
silver or gold for plating or gilding without the aid of a but- 
tery may be made as follows: Take, say, 1 ounce of niti-ate 
of silver, dis.A^lved, in ] quart of distilled or rain water. 
When thoronghl}' dissolved, throw in a few crystals of h}^ 
posulphite of soda, which will at first form a brown precipi- 
tate, but which eventuall}' becomes redissolved if sufticient 
h^-posulphite has been employed. A slight excess of this salt 
must however, be added. The solution thus formed may be 
used for coating small articles of steel, brass, or German sil- 
ver, b7simpl3' dipping a sponge in the solution and rubbing 
it over the surface of the article to be coated. 1 have suc- 
ceeded in coating steel verj' satisfactory by this means, 
and have found the silver so firm!}' attached to the steel 
(when the solution has been carefully made) that it has been 
removed with considerable aifiicuity. A solution of gold 
may be made in the same way, and applied as described. A 
concentrated solution of either gold or silver thus made, 
ma3' be used for coating parts of articles which have stripped 
or bhstered, by applying it with a camel hair pencil to the 
part, and touching the tpot at the same time with a thin 
clean strip of zinc. 



22 PLATIXG ON IRON, METAL BLACKING, AND OINrMP:NT. 



Plating ou Iron or Steel. 

If your inquirer will follow the directions below, he will 
have no trouble in plating on iron or steel. Take two 
quarts rain water, dissolve two pounds cj'anide of potassium, 
and filter. This solution is only for steel or iron. In order 
to plate steel or iron, dip it into pure sulphuric acid for one 
minute, then clean with pumice stone and brush; nnce, and 
hang in cyanide solution of potassium for three minutes, or 
until it Decomes whitej then hang in silver solution until 
plated heavy enough. 

ITIetaii Founders' Blacking. 

To provide metal founders with a blacking possessing good 
sleeking and heat resisting properties, and lo enable them 
to produce castings with smooth skins of desired hues, the 
inventor mixes sea weed, sea grass, or sea plants, in an}' con- 
venient or desired proportion, with still coke, peat charcoal, 
soft wood charcoal, gas coke, coked coal, oil retort coke, coal 
dust, soot, hard wood charcoal, or other suitable coke or 
charcoal, or with lime, chalk, or cla}', or with a mixture of 
two or more of these substances. The seaweed may be ad- 
ded in the newly cut, partiallj' dried, or dr-ed and pulver- 
ised state to the coke, charcoal, lime, chalk, or clay, the lat- 
ter being either in a rough or ground condition. The addi- 
tion of seaweed to coke, charcoal, lime, chalk, and clay in 
evQvy proportion, so long as the moisture is sufficient to 
cause the mixed mass to form a paste in the process of re- 
ducing or grinding or to cause the particles of the blacking 
when furnished to adhere and form lumps, is beneficial eith- 
er, first, for improving the quality, or, second, for reducing 
the cost. 

This is £n English invention recently patented by J. C. 
Sellars, Birkenhead. 

Spermaceti Ointment. 

Valuable as an Ingredient of the above; also as a Dressing 
for Blisters or Old Sores, and as a Healing Ointment- 
Take 1 ounce of spermaceti, I 1-2 drachms of white wax, 
2 ounces ofsvveet olive-oil (in very hot weather, 1 3-4 ounces). 
Melt together over a gentle fire, and stir constantly till cold. 



PLASTER PARTS, CEMENT. AND GLUES. 23 



I 

Plaster of Paris. I 

It is said that tho addition of a email quantity of finely 
pulverised marsh-mallow roots to calcined plaster of Paris 
will prevent the mass, when mixed with water, from hard- 
ening so rapid I3' as it commonly does, ao as to prevent its 
applicability to many purposes. It will require nearl}" an 
hour to become thoroughl}- set; and then it will be found to 
have acquired such an extreme toughness and tenacity as to 
permit it to be filed, turned, and boared, and otherwise man- 
ipulated, almost as satisfactorily as ivory, bone, or meer- 
schaum. Mixed with different coloring matters, an excel- 
lent imitation of marble can be produced. 

Cement for Metal and Glass. — The following cement 
will firmly attach any metallic substance to glass or porce- 
lain : Mix two ounces of a thick solution of glue with one 
ounce of linseed oil varnish, or three fourths of an ounce of 
Venice turpentine; boil them together, stirring them until 
they mix as thoroughly as possible. The pieces cemented 
sliould be tied together for two or three days. 

Diamond Cement. — Take isinglass, soak it in water until 
it becomes soft, then dissolve it in proof-spirit, and add a lit- 
tle resin-varnish. Used for joining china, glass, &c. An 
excellent and reliable cement. 

Very Durable Cement for Iron and Stone. — M. Pol- 
lack, of Bautzen, saxtony, states that, for a period of several 
years, he has used, as a cement to fasten stone to stone and 
iron to iron, a paste made of pure oxide of lead, litharge, 
and gl3'cerine in a concentrated state. This mixture hard- 
ens rapidl}', is insoluble in acids, (unless quite concentrated,) 
and is not affected b}' heat. M. Pollack has used it to fas- 
ten the different portions of a fly-wheel with great success; 
while, when placed between stones, and occe hardened, it is 
easier to break the stone than the joint. 

Liquid Glue. — Fill a vessel (I use a glass jar) with bro- 
ken-up glue of the best quality, then fill it with a acetic acid. 
Keep it in hot water for a few hours, until the glue is all 
melted, and you will have an excellent glue always ready. 



24 BONE FELON, ROSE-SALVE, BURNS AND SCALDS. 

♦ ■ - ■ ■ ■■ - ■ . ■ -■ . : . a. 

Cure for Ifone Felon. 

As soon as you discover that you have a felon forming, 
get a small fly blister which appi}' and leave on six or eight 
hours, or until it blisters. You will then have only a blister 
to cure, as you vvill not be troubled further with the fylon. 
We have known this to succeed in numbers ot cases, and a 
great deal of suffering escaped. 

How TO Cure a Eelon. — First apply an ointment of 
iodide of iron, then on this put a warm poultice made with 
a strong decoction of sweet-flag r^^ot and bread. Eenevvthis 
often for at least twelve hours, or until the felon is brought 
to a head. A cure will be effected in from one to three days. 

A Sure Cuke FOR A Felon.— 'Apply a poultice of onions; 
renew ever}^ morning, noon, and night, for three or four | 
daj-s. No matter how bad the case, lancing the finger will '; 
be unnecessary if this poultice be used. The remedy is sure, 
safe, and speedy. '' 

Rose-Salve. 

For Sore Lips, Chapped Hands; also for softening the Skin 
and beautifying the Complexion. 

Take, of pure white wax, 1 ounce; of fresh olive-oil, 2 3-4 
ounces. Melt together, in a glazed earthen cup, over a gen- 
tle heat. Place it, in while melting, ]-2 drachm of alkanet- 
root, previously tied in a coarse and thin muslin bag; observ- 
ing, frequently, to squeeze out the bag, so that the color may 
be diffused through the fluid. Do this until a deep-red color 
is obtained. 

When the ointment has been made, and is cooling, add 10 
drops of genuine oil of rose, and stir the whole together till 
it is cold. 

For B&irus and Scalds. 

Take 1 ounce of spermacti ointment, 2 drachms of Goul- 
ard's extract (liquor of the subacetate of lead). Thoroughly 
mix with a wooden spoon. Spread thickly upon lint or linen, 
and apply to the parts. Eenew the application several times 
a day. This is an invaluable remedy. 



RHEUMATISM, NEURALDIA AND TOOTH-ACHE. 25 



A Speedy Cure for Rtieumatism. 

Dr. R. H, Boyd states that he curas inflammatory rheu- 
matism in from three to seven days by the following meth- 
od: He givea first a full emetic dose of ant et potass, tart., 
and when this has operated, five drops of tinct. opii and five 
drops tinct. colchici every three or four hours, and a tea- 
spoonful of a half-pint mixture, containing 8 iv. potass, acot. 
every hour. When the patient becomes very hungry, and is 
quite free from pain, having fasted several days, he allows 
two tablespoonfuls of milk or one oyster three times a day, 
increasing the quantity gradually each day. — Michagan Un- 
iversity Medical Journal, May, 1871. 

Carnial Neuralgia Relieved l>y Oelseminum. 

.Dr. Philip U. Williams states, that in supra-orbital neural- 
gia, not malarial or dependent upon organic disease, the yel- 
low Jessamine affords the utmost relief. He is himself sub- 
ject to violent attacks, which are always controlled by this 
remedy, all others having failed, and he has confirmed this 
experience on a great many others. In neuralgia of the 
scalp it has the same happy effects; in maxillary and spinal 
neuralgias it has failed. One dose of 30 to 40 drops of the 
tincture usually suffices. Sometimes it is repeated after an 
hour, and the 20 to 30 drop doses every four hours, continu- 
ed some days, will prevent recurrence. — Baltimore Medical 
Journal. 

Toothache and Neuralgia. 

Remedies. — Ar given by Dr. Chase. Best alcohol, 1 oz., 
laudanum, 1-8 oz., chloroform, liquid, 5-8 oz., gum camphor 
1-2 oz., oil of cloTesl-2oz., sulphuric ether, 3-4 oz., and oil 
of lavender, 1 dr., if there ii a nerve exposed, this will quiet 
it. Apply with lint, also rub on the gums and upon the 
face against the tooth freely. No family should ever be 
without the above in the house, for it never fails to give ease. 

Magnetic Pain Killer and Toothache Drops. — Alcohol 
95 per cent, 2 oz laudanum, 1-2 oz gum camphor 2 oz, oil 
cloves, 2 drs. Mix and color with tine of red sanders. 



26 BOILS, DIARRHEA AND STLVKR-PLATIXG. 



Excellent Tootli Paste. 

Suds of caetile soap and spirits of camphor, of each an 
equal quantity, thicken with an equal quantit}- of pulver- 
if<ed chalk and charcoal, to a thick past- Apply it with the 
finger or brush. Sold for 25 cent* a box. 

Boils. — I have recently got rid of eleven or twelve trouble- 
some boils b3' taking a teaspoonful, in water, of the following 
mixture, before every meal: 2 grains bicloride of mercury, 2 
drachms iodide of potassium, 2 ounces sirup of sarspariila, 2 
ounces water. The boils were gone before 1 had taken half 
the medicine. — D. B., of N. Y. 

Glycerine and litherage stirred to a paste, hardens rapidly, 
and makes a suitable cement for iron upon iron, for two 
stone surfaces, and especiallj' for fastening iron to stone. 
The cement is insoluble, and is not attacked by strong acids. 

For Diarrhea, when accompanied by pain. — Take 2 
drachms concentrated sulphuric ether, 2 drachms spirit lav- 
ender comp., 1-2 drachm wine of opium, three drops of oil 
cloves. Mix. 

One teaspoonful on a lump of sugar is the dose for an 
adult. To be shaken before pouring oui and eaten quicklj-. 
To be repeated every quarter or half hour if the case be 
severe. 

Electric Silver Plating is done Every IVay. 

The same as gold (using coin,) except that rock salt is 
used instead of the cyanurt of potassium, to hold the silver 
in solution for use, and when it is the proper strength of salt, 
it has a thick curd}' appearance, or jou can add salt until 
the silver will deposite an the article to be plated, which is 
all that is required. 

This method entails no trouble with using a battery, and 
the successful result of a long series of experiments in elec- 
troplating. 

Silver solution for plating German silver, copper, brass, 
I &c., &c. — Take 3 oz nitric-acid put in a bottle, and add one 



OLUE. BUG rOrSON AXD WRITING FLUID. 27 ' 



amerioan 25 cent piece, cut fine, let it dissolve; add 3 oz 
quick silver; let it dissolve; add 2 qts rain water and it is 
ready for use. 

Directions for use.— Immerse the article to be plated in 
the solution; let it remain a few minutes. Now rub gently 
with a piece of eponaje, wet with the solution, and "polish 
with buckskin. The thickness of the plate may bo increased 
by repeating. 

Liquid iilue or MTucilage. 

Fine, clean glue or mucilage; lib gumarabic or gumacasia, 
10 oz., water Iqt; melt by heat in a glue kettle or water 
bath; when entirely melted, add slowl3''lO ozs strong nitric 
acid;setoff tocool, and bottle, adding a couple of cloves to 
each bottle. Sells for 25 cts., per bottle. 

To make Bug Poison. 

Take 1 pt. of alcohol, 2 oz. of sal ammonial, 1 pt. spirits 
turpentine, 2 oz. carrosive sublimate, and 2 oz. camphor gum. 
Dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, then pulverize the car- 
rosine sublimate and sal ammonice and add to it, after which 
put in spirits turpentine, and shake well together. 

This is equal to any Bed Bug exterminator. 

Water Proof Oil Blacking. 

Camphene, 1 pt., add all the india rubber it will dissolve, 
currier's oil, 1 pt., tallow, 7 lbs. lampblack, 2 oz.. mix 
thoroughly by heat. 

Superior Combined Black Writing and Copying 

Fluid. 

This Fluid is warranted to flow as freely as an}^ now in 
use, to give a perfect copy, and not to thicken or iiiould, as 
it is made from the best of chemicals. The purchaser must 
not expect to find this fluid jet black when fir-st opened, as its 
exclusion from the air makes its first appearance pale, but on 
its exposure to ttie air in the inkstand or in writing it soon 
becomes a beautiful jet black. The blotter should not b« 
used when copies are required. 

Recipe for making the ink. — Take 2 gallons of rain water 



2S IXK3 ALL KINDS. 

3-4 pounds of nutgalls, bruised or ground coarse; 1-4 pound 
gura arabic, best article; 1-4 pound copperas, 1-4 pound coffee 
sugar, 1-4 ounce cloves. Boil for three hours, then let it 
stand in kettle or barrel for ten daj's, stirring it occasionally, 
when it is ready for use. Before botling add 1 ounce of 
glycerine to every gallon made. The older it gets the better 
it is. After being keptoRe year it is the best writing fluid 
in use. Cost of manufacturing 40 cents per gallon. 
Proved and tested 1868. 

Another Copying Ink. — Take an}^ good bodied ink, (not 
writing fluid), and add to it one fourth of its bulk of sclycer- 
in, he will have the article he calls for. The glycerin pre- 
vents the drjing of the ink, and when he has written a page 
he can take a cop}" in the way described. After taking copy, 
take up an}" remaining ink with a common blotter, turn over 
the leaf and go on writing, copying each page as he proceeds. 
I The writer has copied in this way for 5'ears with perfect 
satisfaction. If the ink dries too quick, add more glycerin; 
if too slowly, use less, it is desirable to write an even hand 
with no very fine or ver}' heavy strokes, as the fine ones 
ma}" dry too quick, and the heavy ones may blot in copying. 



American Commercial Writing Ink. — Take 1-4 lb. extract 
of logwood to 1 gal. of clean soft water; heat to a boiling 
point in a perfectly clean iron kettle, skim well, stir; add 
90 gr's. bichromate of potash, 15 gr's. prussiate of potash, 
dissolved in 1-2 pt. of hot water, then stir for 3 minutes, 
take off strain. 

Fine Indelible Marking Ink. — Nitrate of silver, 100 gr. , 
distilled or soft water, 1 oz. gum arabic, 2 drs. sap green or 
indigo, 1 scruple, mix. This is the finest quality of marking 
ink made. 

Blue. — Take soft Prussian blue and oxolie acid in equal 
parts, powder them finely, and then a(f d soft water to bring 
it to a thin pAste. Let stand for a few days, then add soft 
water to make the desired shade of colors, adding a little 
gum arabic to prevent its spreading. 



INKS, HAIR-DYB AND FHARL DROrS. 29 

Bed Ink. — An oz. phial put one teospoonful ofaqna ammo, 
nia, gum arable eize of two or three peas, and fiix grains of 
No. 40 carmine; fill op with soft water, and it is soon readj' 
for use, 

A Bright Red Ink.— Cochineal 2 oz, brnsed; four over it 
1 quart of boiling water and let it stand. Boil 2 oz. brazil 
wood in one pint soft water for half an hour, and in 24 hours 
mix, the two together; then disolye 1 2 oz. £rum arable in a 
pint of hot water, and when cold add to the oiner, stir well, 
bottle, let stand one week then strain through muslin. 

How TO Make PkintingInk. — Pure balsam copaiba, 9 oz., 
lamp-black, 3 oz., indigo and Prussian blue each 5 drs., In- 
dian red, 3 4 oz., yellow soap, 3 oz., mix and grind to the 
utmost smoothness. 

Hair Dye^ No. 1. 

Crystalized nitrate of silver 1 drachm, sott water 1 oz. 

No. 2. Sulpluret of potassium, 1 drachm, soft water 1 oz. 
Keep in separate bottles. 

Directions. — Cleanse the hair well by washintr, from 
grease and oil, then apply Nos. 1, and 2 alternately with 
different tooth brushes for each number; when dry wash well 
with soap. 

Pearl Drops. 

1-2 lb prepared chalk, 1-2 pint bay rum, 10 oz glycerine, 
1 oz cologne, 2 quarts of rain water. This will fill 2 doz, 2 
oz bottles, retails for 50 cents per bottle. 

The above is one of the best compounds known for re- 
moving tan, freckles, bloches, and beautifying the com- 
plexion. 

Macassar Oil — Olive oil, 1 qt., alcohol, 2 1-2 oz., rose oil, 
1 1-2 oz., then tie 1 oz., chipped alkanet root in a muslin 
bag, and put it in the oil; let it alone some days, until it 
turns the color of a pretty red, then remove to other oils. 
Do not press it. 



!7-Oir>. COLOGXK, SHANIXG C'RE.SM AXO .^ILVKK- WASH , 



iVew York B.\RBEas, Star Hair .Oil.— Castor oil 6 1-2 
pts., alcohol, L l-^pt,8., citronei 'a and lavender oil, each 1-2 
oz. Sold at one dollar per bottle. 

Ox Morrow. — Melt 4 oz., ox tallow, white wax, 1 oz., 
fresh Urdj 6 oz.; when cold add 11-2 oz., oil bergamot. 

I Hair Restorative. — Castor oil, 8 oz., jnmaica rum,- "8 oz., 
i oil lavenders, 80 drops, oil rose, 10 drops. Shake well and 
I apply freel,y. 

i 

I CoLONE. A Superior Article.-— Take 90 per cent, best 

I alcohol, 1 gal, adil to it 1 oz.,oil of bergamot, 1 o/., orange, 

i 2 drs., of oil cedar, 1 dr., oil of nevol, and Idr., oil of rose- 

1 ninry. Mix vveil and it is lit for use. 

1 ^ 

j CoLONE Water. — Oils rosemary and lemon, each 1-4 oz., 

1 oils bergamot and lavender, each 1-2 oz., oil cinnrvmon, 8 

drops: oils cloves and ro'-^e, each 15 drops, deadorizeil alcohol, 

2 qts; shake 2 or 8 times a day for a week. 

Sn.iViNG Cream. — White wax, spermacti, and almon<4 oil, 
each 11 oz.; melt, af;d while warm beat in 2 squares of 
Windsor Boap, previously reduced to a paste with rose 
water. 



Yarnisii for Iron Work. — To make a good black varnish 
for iron work, take eight pounds of asphaltum and fuse it in 
an iron kettle; then add live gallons of boiled linseed oil, one 
pound of iitherage, half a pound of sulphate of zinc (add 
these slowly, or it will funic over,) and boil them about three 
hours. Now add one and a half pounds of dark gum amber, 
and boil for two hours longer, or until the mass will become 
quite thick when cool, after which it should bo thinned with 
turpentine to due consistency. 

Cslecrated ItECiPK FOR SiLVER Wasei. — One ounce of 
nitric acid, one ten cent piece, and one ouiice of quicksilver. 
Put in an open glass vessel, and let it stand until dissolved; 
then add one pint of water, and it is ready for use. Make 
it into a powder by adding whiting, and ife may be used on 
brass, copper, german silver, etc. 



CEMEXT AND TRAXSFEKIXn. 31 



Cemext for Aquaria.— Many persons have attempted to 
make aquarium, buc have failed on account of the extreme 
difticulty in making the tank resist the action of water lor 
any length of time. Below is a receipt for a cement that 
can be relied upon; it is perfectly free from anything that 
injures the animals or plants; it sticks to glass, metal, wood, 
stone, etc., and hardens under water. A hundred different 
experiments with cements have been tried, but there is noth- 
ing likejt. It is the same as that used in constructing the 
tanks of the Zoological Gardens, in London, and is almost un- 
known in this country. One part, by measure,"8ay a gill, 
of litherage; one gill of plaster of paris; one gill of dry white 
sand; one-third of a gill of finely-powdered rosin. Sift and 
keep corked tight until required for use, when it is to be 
made into a putty by mixing in boiled oil (linseed) with a 
little patent dryer added. iN^ever use it after it has been 
mixed (that is, with the oil) over fifteen hours. This cement 
can be used for marine as well as fresh water aquaria, as it 
resists the action of salt water. The tank can be used im- 
mediately, but it is best to give it three or four hours to dry. 

Transferrixg on Glass.— Colored or plain engravings, 
photographs, lithographs, water colors, oil' colors, craynon, 
steel plates, newspaper cuts, mezzotinto, pencil, writino- 
show cards, labels— or in fact anything. ° 

Directions.— Take glass that is perfectly clean— window 
glass will answer— clean it thoroughly; then varnish it tak- 
ing care to have it perfectly smooth; place it where it will be 
entirely free from dust; let it stand over night; then take 
your engraying, lay it in clear water until it is wet through 
(say ten or fifteen minutes), then lay it upon a newspaper, 
that the moisture may dry from the" surface, and still keep 
the side damp. Immediately varnish your glass the second 
time, then place your engraving on it, pressing it dowa 
firmi}', so as to exclude every particle of air; next rub the 
paper from the back, until it is of uniform thickness- so thin 
that you can see through it, then varnish it the third time, 
and let it djy. 

Materials used for the above art.— Take two ounces bal- 
sam of fir, to one ounce of spirits of turpentine; apply with 
a camel's hair brush. 



32 ARTIFICIAL HONEY. PRESERVATION OF MEAT, 

. • i'. ' ■ . . ■ . ■ . ■ — v^.-,- 

To Transfer Engravings to Plaster Casts. — Cover the 
plate with ink, poliph its surface in the usual way, then put 
a wall of paper round; then pour on it some fine paste made 
with plaster paris. Jerk it to drive out the air bubbles, and 
let it stand one hour, when you have a fine impression. 

Receipt for Making Artificial Honey. — To 10 lbs, su- 
gar add 3 lbs. water, 40 grains cream tartar, 10 drops essen- 
ce pepermint, and 3 lbs. strained honey. First dissolve the 
sugar in water and take off the scum; then dissolve the cream 
of tartar in a little warm water, which you will add with 
some little stirring; then add the honey; heat to a boiling 
point, and stir for a few minutes. 

Preservation of meat, Tegataliles, &.c. 

In the Moniteur Scientifique for March, 1871, Dr- G. De- 
clat describes a process of preserving both vegetable and 
and animal food material, which is said to have been used 
successfully in Paris. It consists in soaking the substances 
in aqueous solutions of various strengths of pure carbolic 
acid, and then drying them. 

Darkness in Treatment of Small-Pox. 

Mr. J. H. Waters states that if a patient, in the beginning 
of the attack, be put in a room from which absolutely all 
light is excluded save that of a candle, the effect is to arrest 
the disease in the popular or vesicular stage; it never be- 
comes purulent, and the skin between the vesicles is never 
inflamed or swollen; the liquor sanguinis is prevented from 
becoming pus; the large scabs of matter never form over the 
face; there is no intense pain, and only trifling itching, and 
the smell is either very slight or altogether wanting. — Lon- 
don Lancet. 

PreTentitive of Sea-Sickness. 

Boil two ounces of opium, two drachms extract of hen- 
bane, ten grains of mace, and two ounces of soap, in three 
pints of water, for half an hour. When cold, add one quart 
of rectified spirits and three drachms of spirits of ammonia. 
To be used as an embroeation. 



STRONG DRINK, CHAMPAIGN, AND BLACKBERRY WIXJI. 33 



Cure for the LoFe of Strong I>rink. 

Tartar emetic, 9 grains; rose water, 4 oz. Mix. Pat a 
table-«poonfuI into the whole quantity the person drinks 
through the day. Be sore not to exceed this quantity. 

Receipt for ^auufacturing American Champagne. 

For ten gallons of water take one and one-half pint of ! 
brewer's yeast, one-half pound of tartaric acid, (or quantity i 
to suit taste,) and five pounds of common coarse brown sugar. 
Make the water milk warm, put in the yeast first; ten min- 
ntes after put in the tartaric acid and sugar; then let it cool, 
stirring it occasionallj' through the day. Bottle at night, 
aft«r it has settled. You can color and improv<i it by adding 
a little sherry or St. Julian. By using white sugar it is aP 
most impossible to tell it from real champagne. Cost of 
maoafactoro 20 cents per gallon. 

Blackberry Wine. 

There is no wine equal to blackberry wine when properly 
made, in flavor or for medicinal purposes, and all persons 
who can conveniently do so, should manufacture enough for 
their own use every year, as it is invaluable in sickness as a 
tonic, and nothing is better for the bowel complaint. We 
therefor© give the receipt for making it: Measure yonr ber« 
ries and bruise them; to every gallon add one quart of boiling 
water. Let the mixture stand twenty-four hours, Btirring 
occasionallyj strain off the liquor into a cask; to every gallon 
add two pounds of sugar; cork it tight and let stand till the 
following October, and you will have wine ready for use 
without further labor, that every family might highly appre- 
I ciat« and never do without afterward if they can help it* 

Flxins Lead Pencil Marks on Paper. 

Stretch the drawing tightly on a board, with drawing pinj, 
and pour a little pure milk (if it can bo obtained) on the pa- 
per, tarniogthe board about till the milk has flowed all over 
the drawing. The turning raust be done at once as the milk 
mast not be allowed to stand on the paper. When tb« whole 
surface is wetted, let the milk drain off, aod leave the board 
with tho drawing in tbo air to dry. 




34 HAIR AND WHISKERS. 



Tlie Hair and Whiskers. 

Hair Restorers and Invigor^tors. — There are hundreds, i 
Lyon's Wood's, Barry's, i3ogle'8, Jane's, Siorr's, Baker's, | 
Drisco's, Phalon's, Haskel's, Allen's, vSpalding's, etc. But, j 
though all under different names, are similar in principle; ' 
being vegetable oils dissolved in alcohol, with the addition ; 
of spirit of soap, and an astringent material, such as tincture ; 
of catechu, or infusion of bark. The best is to dissolve one I 
ounce cf castor oil in one quart of 95 alcohol, and add one \ 
ounce of the tincture of cantharades, two ounces of the 
tincture of catechu, two ounces of lemon juice, two ounces of ' 
the tincture of cinchona; and to scent it, add the oil of cin- j 
namon, or oil of rosmaiy, or both. I 

To Cure Baldness. — Take water, one pint; pearl-ash, one- | 
half ounce; onion juice, one gill. Mix, and cork in a bottle. \ 
Bub the head night and morning, with a rough towel, dipped 
in the mixture. 

To Make the Hair Soft and Glossy. — Put one ounce of 
castor oil in one pint of bay rum or alcohol, and color it with 
a little of the tincture of alkanet root. Apply a little every 
morning. 

PouDRE Subtile for Eemoving Superfluous Hair, — Take ! 
powdered quick-lime, two parts; sulphuret ot arsenic, one i 
part; starch, one part; mix into a fine powder, and keep in a • 
close corked bottle. When required for use, take a small i 
quantity and add two or three drops of water, and apply on i 
the part you desire to remove the hair from — let it remain i 
about one minute, or until it becomes red, then wash off. | 

Oil to Make the Hair Grow% — Olive Oil one qr. pt., | 
Add oils of Bosmary and Origanum, each one sixth oz. Ap- i 
ply freely. I 

Whiskers or Moustache forced to Grow. — Cologne, two > 
ounces, liquid hartshorn, one drachm; tincture cantharides, \ 
two drachms; oil rosemary, twelve drops; oil nutmeg, twelve | 
drops; and lavender, twefve drops. This is the recipt used j 
in making the celebrated Graham Ongent. 

I 



BALM OF BEAUTY, BLEACHING FEATHERS AND CHOW-CHOW. 35 



Directions to Color the Hair. — First wash the head, 
beard, or moustaches, with soap and water; afterwards with 
clean water. Drj-, and apply the gallic acid solution, with a 
clean brush. When it is almost dr}-, take a small tooth 
comb, and with a fine brush, put on the teeth of the comb a 
little of the silver solution, and comb it through the hair, 
when it becomes a brilliant jet black. Wait for a few hours; 
then wash the head again with clean water. If j'ou want to 
make a brown dye, add double or treble the amount of water 
to the silver solution, and you can obtain any shade or color 
you choose. 

Balm of Beauty. — Pure soft water, one qt., pulverized 
castile soap, four oz., emulsion of bitter almonds, six oz., 
tincture of benzein, two drs., rose and orange flower water, 
each, eight oz., borax one dr; add five grs., of bichloride of 
mercury to every eight ounces of the mixture. To use, ap- 
pl3' a cotton or linen cloth to the face, etc. This is a reliable 
article and gives the manufacturer a large profit. 

New Method of Bleacliiaig or Disinfecting Feathers. 

Clean the feathers first from greasy matter, and then place 
them for three hours in a dilute solution of bichromate of 
potassa, to which a small quantity of nitric acid has been 
added. The feathers will become greenish from a deposit 
of chromic sesqui-oxide, which is removed b}^ weak sulphur- 
ous acid, when the feathers are left perfectly white. The 
nascent oxygen developed in the reduction of the chromic 
acid to the oxide is, of course, the bleaching agent, and so 
powerful is it that the darkest feathers will become perfectly 
white. 

Ciiow-ciiow. — Take quarter peck green tomatoes, same 
quantity, each of pickling beans and white onions, one dozen 
each cucumbers and green peppers; one head of cabbage. 
Season with mustard, celery seed, and salt to the* taste. 
Pour over these the best cider vinegar sufficient to cover; boil 
slowly for two hours, continually stirring, and add, while 
hot, t\yo table-spoonfuls of the finest salad oil. 



36 DTBIXG CARPET WARP. 

Recipes for Dyeing Carpet Warp. 

It shonld be borne in mind thafc the material when wet al- 
ways looks darker than it will when dry, and in order to 
judge whether the desired shade is obtained, it is necessary 
to ring out a small portion quite dry botbre deciding that the 
shade is deep enough. After the material is dried it should 
be thoroughly rinsed in an abundance of soft water until no 
more color is imparted to the water. 

Green. — For three pounds of warp, take one pound of 
fustic, one-half pound of logwood chips, a piece of blue vitri- 
ol the size of a hickory out, and three pails of water. Boil 
one hour. 

Purple. — For fifteen pounds of warp, take four pound of 
logwood chips; boil them in two pails of water. Dissolve 
on© pound of alum in a pail of hot water; pour the alum wa- 
ter into that containing the logwood, and boil your cotton in 
it one hour. 

Yellow. — For five pounds of cotton, dissolve eight ounces 
sugar of lead in four quarts of warm water, and dissolve five 
ounces bicromate of potash in three quarts of warm water. 
Put the cotton in the lead water first; wring it out and put it 
in the bichromate of potash water; continue until you have 
the shade you wish. 

Pink. — ^For five pounds of cotton, take two pounds of Nic* 
auragua or red wood, four of solution of tin; boil the wood 
an hour in six quarts of water. Pour the dye into a tub and 
ad the solution of tin; put in the cotton; let it stand five min- 
utes, and you will have a nice color. [The solution of tin 
may be had of the druggists, under the name of the chlorid* 
OP muriate of tin.} 

To Dte Woolehb, Red, CRnisoj^, and ScARtEf.— Coarte 
woolen stuffs are dyed red with madder or archil, but fine 
cloth is almost exclusively dyed with cochineal, though the 
color which it recieves from kermes is much more durabl»^ 
Bra25il-wood is scarcely used, except as an auxiliary, because 
the eoIoF which it impart&^to wool is not pcrmanontv 



CAKES, PUDDINGS, &C. 37 

Red Dyes. — The coloring matter employed for dyeing red 
are archil, madder, carthamus, kermes, cochineal, and brazil- 
wood. 

Cocoa-nut Cake,— Take one-half cup of butter, two cups 
of sugar, three eggs, one cup of milk (sweet,) three and one- 
half cups of flour, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder, one 
coca-nut, grated fine. Beat the eggs and sugar together, 
then add the flour and milk; lastly add the cocoa-nut. Mix 
well, and pour into a pan for tbe oven. 

Green Corn Pudding.— Take twelve ears of corn, split the 
rows in the centre, then scrape out the pulp with a knife; 
this will leave the hull on the cob. Add four eggs, one pint 
milk, one spoonful butter, sweeten and flavor to taste. Bake 
one-half hour. 

Favorite Cake.— Three cups sugar, two cups batter, five 
cups flour, one pound fruit, one cup milk, five eggs, one tea- 
spoon soda. 

German Puffs.— One quart of milk, six eggs, sixteen ta- 
blespoonfuls of flour, and a little salt. Bake in small tins. 

To Make fine Kolls.— Warm a bit of butter in half a pint 
of milk; add two spoonful of small beer yeast and some salt ; 
with these ingredients mix two pounds of flour; lot it rise 
one hour, and kneed it well; form the rolls, and bake them in 
a quick oven twenty minutes. 

Cocoa-nut Pie.— Cut off the brown part of the cocoa-nut, 
grate the white part, and mix it with milk, and set it on the 
fire and boil it slowly eisrht or ten minutes. To a pound of 
cocoa-nut allow a quart of milk, eight eggs, four tablespoon- 
fuls of sifted white sugar, a glass of wine, a small cracker 
pounded fine, two spoonfuls of melted butter, and half a nut- 
meg. Tbe eggs and sugar should be beaten together to a 
froth, then the wine stirred in. Put them into the milk and 
cocoa-nut, which should be first allowed to get quite cool; 
add the cracker and nutmeg, turn the whole into deep pie- 
plates, with a lining and rim of puff-paste. Bake them as I 
soon as turned into the plates. 



38 PRKSKRVATTON OP EG G6, RUSKB, BISCUITS, &C » 

Steam Puddixo. — One quart flour, one coffee cup chopped 
raisins or currants, one teacup chopped suet, one teacup half 
filled with molaeses, finish with brown sugar, one teaspoon 
soda, two teacups sweet milk, a little salt. Mix, and steam 
three hours. Sauce. 

Sponge Gingerbread. — Two poundof flour, one ot sugar, 
one of butttr, six eggs, one pint of molasses, one pint of milk, 
two tablespoonful of ginger, one of cinnamon, one of cloves, 
two of pearlash. 

To MAKE Rusk.— One cup butter, one cup sugar, one pound 
of flour, one pint of milk, turee eggs, one cup of yeast, one 
teaspoonful of saleratus. Bake in a quick oven. 

ExcsLLKNT Biscuits.— Take of flour, two pounds; carbon- 
ate of amonia, three drachms in fine powder; white sugar, 
four ounces; arrowroot, one ounce; butter; four ounces; one 
egg. Mix into a6tifl:'paste with new^ milk, and beat them 
well with a rolling pin for half an hour, roll out thin, and 
cut them out with a docker, and bake in a quick oven for 
fifteen minutes. 

Omlette Souffle. — Beat the whites of ten eggs to a stiff 
froth, the yolks with three quarters of a pound of white su- 
gar, juice and rind of one lemon; mix all together lightly. 
Butter a dish that will just hold it, and bake ten or fifteen 
minutes. 

Preservation of Eggs. — Eggs may be preserved for any 
length of time by excluding them from the air. One of the 
cleanest and easiest modes of doing ttiis is to pack them in 
clean, dry salt, in barrels or tubs, and to place them in a cool 
and dry situation. An old shipmaster says he has eaten eggs 
thus preserved that were a year old, and that had been some 
months aboard ship, in a tropical climate, and yet retained 
all the peculiar sweetness of newly-laid egi^s. Some persons 
place eggs which they wish to preserve in a netting, or on a 
sieve or cullender, and immerse them for an instant in a caul- 
dron of boiling water, befor packing them away. Sometimes 
eggs are placed in vessels containing milk of lime, or strong 
brine, or rubbed over with butter, lard, or gum watery all ot 
which act by excluding the air. 



BT'tTEK, HOrSK PAIXT AXD WASHING COMrOVNP. 39 



Butter, How to Keep.— Butter can be kept sweet and 
nice for a whole year by working into it a very little pow- 
dered loaf-sugar and powdered saltpeter; put into a jar or 
tub, make a brine with salt as strong as water will dissolve 
and completely cover the butter with this; then make a email 
muslin bag and fill with salt and put in. Care muat be ta- 
ken that the butter is alwaj-s covered with the brine. 

To KEEP Eggs.— Add to four quarts of air slacked lime two 
tablespoonfuls of cream tartar, two of salt, and four quarts 
cold water. Put fresh eggs into a stone jar, and pour this 
mixture over them. This will keep nine dozen, and if fresh 
when laid down, they will keep many months. If the water 
settles away so as to leave the upper layer uncovered, add 
more water. Cover close, and keep in a cool place. 

Cheap White House Paint.— Take skim milk, two quart?; 
eight ounces fresh slacked lime, six ounces linseed oil, two 
ounces white burgundy pitch, three pounds Spanish white. 
Slack the lime in water, expose to the air, and mix in about 
one quarter the milk; the oil, in which the pitch is previously 
dissolved, to be added, a little at a time: then the rest of the 
milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This quantity is 
sufficient for thirty square yards, two coats, and costs but a 
few cents. If the other colors are wanted, use, instead of 
Spanish white, other coloring matter. 

flow to make a Valuable Washing Compound. 

Take one pound of Babbit soap, slice it up finely, and dis- 
solve it in two quarts of bailing soft water. Then in another 
dish, take ten ounces of sal soda, six ounces good white un- 
slacked lime, soft boiling water two quarts, and two ounces 
of borax. Mix well, then let stand and settle, after which 
pour off the clear water or solution into the dish containing 
the soap, which should be kept hot; then stir well and add 
one half-ounce of aqua amonia, and one half onnce of ben- 
zine; mix all together thoroughly and set away to cool, and 
you have the best compound in'the world. 

Directions for using.— Put on your water iind let it warm, 
then put in one pound of the compound, to every three gal- 
lons of wat«r. Put in your white clothes «nd let them boil 



40 SOAPS ALL KINDS. 



very briskly from ten to twenty minutes, according to degree 
of dirtiness. 

Kinse in two waters, blue and hang out. Put yoir colored 
clothes in the same suds and let them boil very slow, eight or 
ten minutes, rinse thoroughly and hang out . Then set your 
boiler on top of the stove and put in your woolens, not allow- 
ing them to boil, but keep in the hot jjuds five or ten minutes. 
Take the suds and mop your floor. Throw a little water on 
3'our white clothes over night, or let them soak in warm 
compound suds an hour or so before boiling. Don't crowd 
yonr boiler too full or put in clothes twisted hard from wring- 
ing. 

Friction Soap. — Take five pounds of brown soap, and ten 
pounds of fine sand. Heat them well together over a slow 
fire, add whatever kind of scent or coloring you desire, and 
while it is yet warm, make it into one-quarter pound cakes, 
and it will readily sell at ten cents a cake. It is an excellent 
thing for the toilet, and all kinds of washing, clothes ex- 
cepted. It will cure skin diseases of every description. 

Erasive Soap. — This receipt alone is worth Ten Dollars to 
any family; it costs but little to try it. Aquse amonia, two 
ounces; white shaving soap, one ounce; saltpetre, one tea- 
spoonful; soft water, one quart. 

Chemical Soft Soap. — Take grease eight pounds, sal soda 
one pound; melt the grease in a kettle, melt the sodas in soft 
water, four gallons, and pour all into a barrel holding forty 
gallons, and fill wuth soft water, and the labor is done. 
I When the caustic soup cannot be obtained of soap-makers, 
I you will make it by taking soda-ash and fresh slacked lime, 
of each eight pounds; dissolve them in the water with sal 
soda, and when settled, pour off the clear liquid as in the 
"White Hard Soap with Tallow.'' 



Soda Ash Soap. — Take of soda ash, two and one-fourth 
pounds; unslacked lime, one and one-half pounds; rain water, 
six gallons; boil one hour, then set off to settle. Pour off the 
clean liquor, and add to it six pounds of clear grease, and 
boil till, when cold, it is hard. This will take about two 
hours. 



WASTTINPr FLUID. SOAl'VINAGKK. 41 



To Make Washing Fluid. — To one gallon of soft soap 
(such as is made by the usual method of boiling the 13'e of 
wood ashes and fat together), take four ounces ot sal soda, 
half a trallon of rain or soft water, and one-half gill of spirits 
of turpentine. Place them all in a pot over the fire, and al- 
low the mixture to boil a few minutes. It is then ready for 
use, and can be kept in an earthen or stone ware vessel. In 
using this fluid, the clothes intended to be washed should be 
soaked ten or twelve hours — say over night — and then to a 
ten or twelve gallon boiler, or kettle full of clothes, covered 
with water, add one pint of fluid; boil briskly for fifteen min- 
utes, and then rinse them in firesh water. It will be found 
that little or no rubbing, of an}' account, will be found nec- 
68 a r}' 

Silver Soap for Cleaning Silver and Brittannta. — One 
half pound of soap, three tablespoonfuls of sprits of turpen- 
tine, and half a tumbler of water. Let it boil ten minutes; 
and add six tablespoonfuUs of spirits of hartshorn. Make 
sudds of this and wash with it. 

To Make a good Washing Soap without Lie or Greece. 
— One pound of yellow bar soap; Babbitts is the best; ore 
pound ot sal soda, one ounce of borax, four pounds of soft 
water. Mix all together and boil fifteen minutes. It will 
make four pounds of soap when cold. Spread the soap on 
the dirt}' streaks in your clothing and put them to soak in a 
tub of water over night and you will save half the labor in 
washing. 

Yinegar from Acetic Acid and Molasses. — x\cetic acid, 
four pounds; molasses, one gallon, put them into a forty gal- 
lon cask, and fill it up with rain water; shake it up and let 
it stand, from one to three weeks, and the result is good vin- 
egar. If this does not make it as eharp as you like, add a 
little more molasses. But some will object to this becaui^e 
an acid is used: let me say to such, that acetic acid is con- 
centrated vinegar. Take one pound or one pint, or any 
other quantity of this acid, and add seven times as much 
soft water, and you have just as good vinegar as can be made 
from cider, and that instantaneously. 



42 



BUTTER. BLUING, AND BREAKING HORSES. 



How JOUR POUNDS OF BUTTER IS MaDE FROM ONE GALLON 

OF Sweet AjILK. — Tuke one gallon of sweet milk, warm and 
curdle as you would if j'ou were going to raake cheese, 
(beefs runnet is most commonly used for the purpose) then 
empty into a common churn, and add eight pounds of butter 
churn all together for five or ten minutes, then empty out 
out into a large bowl and work out the whey and color with 
a little Annetta; now make into rolls and weigh, and you 
find you have twelve pounds of butter instead of eight 
pounds, but you have no buttermilk. I have known per- 
Hons to make butter as above and sell in the markets at 
first class prices without detection in cool weather, but it 
does not do well in warm weather. 1 do not recommend the 
above, but give it from the fact that there arc persons going 
about through the country selling receipts fi'om five to ten 
dollars to make four pounds pounds of butter from one gal- 
lon of sweet milk. 

Liquid Blueing for Clothes — Take best Prussian blue, 
pulverized, one ounce; oxalic acid, also pulverized, ene-half 
ounce; soft water; one quart; mix. The acid dissolves the 
blue and holds it evenly in the water, so that specking will 
never take place. Oneortwo tablespoonfuls of it is sutiicient 
for a tub of water, according to the size of the wash. This 
is far prefferable to the blueing sold at stores, and is mnch 
cheaper. 

Breaking Horses. There is nothing more unreasanable 
or unwise — we are almost tempted to say inhuman — than 
the old methed of treating horses — namely, allowing them to 
ruo wild until a certain age, and then having a violent con- 
flict wit'j them for the mastery. On this subject a well 
known horsman offers the following sensible remarks: 

"1 am glad to see that the practice of breaking horses is 
growing into disuse. Gentle your horses and acquaint them 
M'ith the duties which they shall have to perform, but never 
whip them. Accustom them, from their earliest colthood, to 
be handled; pet thorn tintil they enjoy your societ}-; in fact, 
win their love by kindness. Let them learn what a halter 
is in a manner which will not shock or frighten them. Teach 
them to put up with straps and buckles, and, when old e- 
nough, have them daily bear or drag some light load; but do 



SITRE CTRK FOR 150XK SPAVIN. 43 



it all kindly, and gradually lead them on in their education, 
so that when the proper time comes, they can be saddled or 
harnessed with neither risk nor trouble. But to throw the 
whole burden of a three years' education upon them in about 
the same number of days, and to conqure the poor, trembling 
animals by brute force, is it human and unreasonabl. Let 
us learn and teach our children to treat the animals given us 
for our service by our Master, in a manner worthy of human 
beings/' 

To RcinoTe Boae Sparain from Horses wilout Fail. 

One ounce of oil vitriol, two ounce of oil spike, two ounces 
spirits turpentine. Mix all the aoove in an earthen dish, 
then add one ounce of oil vitriol. Great care should be ta- 
ken to fasten the bottle of vitriol to a stick three or four 
feet long to prevent your getting burnt, as the ingredients 
will ignite and burn awhile when the vitriol is added. 

Directions for Use.— First apply once a day for three days, 
then let lest three days, then grease well. Be careful a^nd 
not let jtget weT before it is well greased. Then wash with 
castile soap and apply again as above. Continue the pro- 
cege according to directions until lameness is removed. 1 
could give several other remedies but it not necessary as the 
above never fails to cure. 

Perhaps you might prefer the following 8S00 receipt: 
Corrosive sublimate quicksilver; and iodine, each one ounce: 
\Tith lard only sufficient for a paste. 

Directions.— jRub the quicksilver and iodine together, then 
add the sublime and finally the lard, rubbing thoroughly. 
Shave off the hair the size of the bone enlargement, "then 
grease all around it, but not where the hair is shaved oft, 
this prevents the action of the medicine, only upon the spav- 
in; now rub in as much of the paste as will lie on a five cent 
piece only, each mornine for four mornings only. In seven 
or eight days the whole spavin will come out then wash out 
the wound with guds, soaking well for an hour or two, which 
removes the poisonous effects of the medicine and faciltates 
the healing, which will be done by any of the healing salves. 

1 would use the Green Mountain Salve, which is made as 
follows : Eosin five pounde, burgundy pitch, bees wax, and I 



44 SPAVIN AND POLL EVIL . 

mutton tallow, each one quarter of a pound, oil of hemlocif, 
balsam of fir, oil of origanum, oil of red cedar, and venice 
turpentine, each one ounce; melt the first articles togetber, 
then add the oils, and put it in with the other aticies, Stirling 
well, then pour in the cold water and work as wax until cool 
enough to roll. This salve has no equal for rheumatic pains, 
or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, oran}^ place where 
pain may locale itself. When the skin is broken^ as in ulcers 
and bruises, I use it without the verdigris, making a white 
salve. 

Another Spavin Cure. — Take equal parts of oil^spike, oil 
of amber and spirits of turpentine, warm the compound on 
the stove, being careful that the fire does not get to it, and ap- 
ply PS warm as you can to the spavin, by pouring it on and 
rubbing it in well with the ball of your thumb, having first 
shaved the hair ott" the spavin. JRepeat twice per day for two 
da3'8, when if well rubbed, it will become a running sore. 
Then wet a sponge with the compound, and apply it twice per 
day for three daj's, then stop for three days, and if the spavin 
has not disappeared, repeat the dose for three days longer. 
Let the sore heal, then wash it with suds from castile soap, 
and the spavin will disappear. 

To Cure Poll Evil and Fistula. 

Take an herb commonly know as sheep sorrell, which grows 
most everywhere and mash it up, either the root or herb itself 
and put in water and boi! down to a strong thick tea. 
Take some of the same and put in a puter dish; set it in the 
sun until it evaporates and thickens about as thick molasses. 
Wash twice per day with the tea, and apply after each bath- 
ing the thickened tea as you would salve. This never fail 
to effect a permanent cure. 

Anothkr cure for Fistula. — Open the sore with a knife, 
then roll thirty grains ot arsenic up in a small piece of pa- 
per, an press it down in the cut; and let it remain there 18 
days; then pare out all dead flesh, wash it with soap every 
day. Heal it up with rosin and muton lallow in equal por- 
tions. 



THE HORSE AND HIS DISKASF9. 45 



Corns ix Horses, how to Treat. — Cut out the stain, if 
a supperating corn, place the foot io a poultice after having 
opened the abscess; the horn being softened, cut away all the 
sole which has been released by the pus from its attachment 
to the secreeting surface; tack on an old shoe, and dress 
■with the solution of chloride of zinc one grain, to the ounce 
of water; afterward shoe with leather and employ stopping 
to render the horn plastic. 

How TO TREAT CouGHS IN HoRSEs. — Crush the Otis, damp 
the ha}^, give gruel or flax seed tea for drink, clothe warmly, 
and give three times a day half a pint of the following mix- 
ture in a tumblerful of water; extract belladonna one drachm, 
rubbed down graduall}' in a pint of cold water until dis- 
solved, then add tincture of squills ten ounces, tincture of 
ipecac eight ounces. 

EiNG-BONE, ITS TREATMENT. — In the first stages, apply 
poultices with one drachm each camphor and powered opi- 
um; afterward rub with an ointment of iodine and lead one 
ounce, simple ointment eight ounces (well mixed;) continue 
the treatment two weeks after all active sj^mptoms have 
subsided; allow liberal food and rest. 

Hide-bound, how Treated. — Plenty of food, clean, soft 
bedding, healthy exercise, and good grooming; administer 
daily tvvo drinks, composed of liquor arsenicalis half ounce, 
tincture muriate iron one ounce, water one pint; mix, and 
give at one dose. 

Eemedy for SoRiE Tongue in Horses. — Take one part su- 
gar of lead, one part bole amonia, and two parts burnt 
alum, the whole to be added to three quarts of vinegar. With 
this wash out the mouth twice a day. 

Eemedy for Strain in Horses. — Take whisky, one half 
pint; camphor, one ounce; sharp vinegar, ong pint. Mix. 
Use for bathing. 

Slobbers in Horses. — An infallible, simple, and cheap 
remedy is a dose or two of from one to two gallons of wheat 
bran. 



46 THE Ht)RSE AND HIS DISEASES. 

General Inflamation of the Eye. — Introduce into the 
eye, two or three times a day, the following lotion: Ex- 
tract goulard, two drachms, spiritous tincture digitalis, two 
drachms; tincture opium, two drachms; water, one pint. 
Two or three drops at a time will suffice. 

Cramp in horses arises from irregular action of the motor 
nerves. Rubbing the affected parts with a wisp of bay for 
ten minutes would be beneficial; and should friction alone 
not remove the tendency to cramp, the parts affected should 
be rubbed occasionally with a solution of camphor and olive 
oil. 

To Keep Flies prom Horses. — Take of green leaves of 
the shagbark hickory, (Car3^a Alba) quantum suff.; bruise in 
hot water, let cool, and strain, and sponge the most exposed 
parts before the horse leaves the stable, 1 have found this 
perfectly effectual in preventing horse flies, common flies, 
gre^heads, and rausquetoes from troubling horses, for three 
or four hours after application. 

For Distemper. — Bleed in the neck vein, taking about 
three pints of blood, then give the following: Take one table- 
spoonful of gunpowder, one of hogs lard, one of soft soap, 
two of tar, and one of pulverized gum myrrh. Mix thorougly. 
Put a spoonful of this down his throat as far as you can reach 
with a paddle or spoon, twice a day. The object is not so 
much to have him swallow it as it is to have it lodge about 
the glands of the throat. Ko danger is to be apprehended 
from using it freely. 

Corosive Liniment. — Take half a pint of turpentine, one 
ounce of finely powdered corosive sublimate, one ounce gum 
camphor; shake well, and let stand twenty-four hours, when 
it will be ready for use. This liniment will cure big-head 
and big-jaw,*grea8e, thrush, scratches, swelled legs, hoof rot, 
foot evil, corns, ulceration of the foot, fistula, poll evil, ring- 
bone, acd spavin, in their first stages. 

Cure for Colic in Horses. — We have found the following 
receipt very effectual in curing colic: Take as much bread 



THE HORSE AXD HIS DISKIRKS. 47 



eoda as will dissolve in a pint of water — say a teacupfull; put 
in a strong bottle with a long neck; pour in the water, warm 
water is best, shake well, and add one ounce of laudanum, 
one ounce essence ginger, and one ounce chloroform; shake 
well and drench. The eoda alone is very good. Colic is 
produced by acidity and distension of the bowels. This dis- 
tension in one place causes contraction in another and en- 
tirely locks up the bowels. You want to administer a reme- 
dy that will correct the acidity and relax the bowels. Ji^oth- 
ing is better, we think, than the above combination, and we 
would advise all persons who have horses to keep a bottle on 
hand ready for use. This is also a sure remedy for bots. 

Scratches in Horses. — Mix white lead and linseed oil in 
such proportions as will render the application convenient, 
and 1 never have known more than two or three applica- 
tions necessary to effect a cure. 

Receipts for the Cure of Diseases in Horses, 

The following are receipts that 1 have obtained from an 
old English gentleman at a cost of $100. 

For Big Head or Jaw. — Take half a pint of turpentine, 
one ounce of camphor, one ounce of sublimate; mix and let 
etand for a day and it is fit for use. Use about one table- 
spoonful on each side of the head or jaw; bathe the parts 
well with a hot iron. Do this once a day until you use all 
the medicine, and at the same time commence giving sul- 
phur, about one fourth of a pound to a dose, until you give 
two or three pounds; do this every four or five days; bleed 
moderately every sixth day for five or six times, and keep 
your horse out of wet weather while doctoring him. This 
medicine is poison. 

For Poll Evil — Use about the same quantity of the same 
medicine, always washing the sore well, if broke, with warm 
water and soap. Before applying the medicine bleed some 
three or four times, and give some three or four doses of 
sulphur, always bathing it with a hot iron. 

For Bone, Bog, or Blood Spavin — Make use of the same 
receipt and same quantity. Omit the sulphur and bleeding, 
but bathe well, especially for bone spavin. 



48 THE HORSE AND HIS DlSKASEi?. 

For Foot Evil — Yoa will use the same medicine, omitting 
the bathing; keep them out of wet weather or dew, and give 
three or four doses of sulphur, and bleed two or three times. 

For Eing Bone — Use the same medicine and bathe the 
part well, omitting the sulphur and bleeding. 

For Splint vSaddle Galls or any hard bony substance, aris- 
ing from kicks, blows, or sprains, use the same medicine, 
omitting the bleeding and sulphur, but bathe well. 

For Big Shoulder — Take one pint of French brandy and as 
mach aquefortice, as will make it sour so as to bite the tongue, 
then add one ounce of blue stone, one ounce of corosive subli- 
mate, one ounce of camphor, two vials of oil of spike, one and 
a half gill of turpentine. Mix them all together, and take a 
hair brush and rub it in, do this three or four times, always 
bathing it well with a hot iron, do this everj' other day; bleed 
twoor three times and give three or four doses of sulphur; and 
keep them out of bad weather. 

For Weak or Inflamed Eyes— Take ten grains of calomel, 
two grains of red precipitate; mix it well and add to this 
quantity one teaspoonfull of fresh butter. Mix it well and 
pui a small quantity in the eye witu a feather once a day, 
using a wash at the same time, made by adding one half 
once of lodanum to one pint of water. Bleed some two or 
three times in eight or ton days. 

For Fistula — Take one pint of strong spirits and as much 
soap as will dissolve in it while boiling. As soon as it boits 
pour it on the sore, do this for four mornings. Bleed the 1st, 
5th, and 10th morning; or else take one pint of turpentine, 
one vial of oil of spike, mix this and let it boil and pour it 
on the sore; use this quantity three mornings in succession 
and bleed ae above directed. 

For Founder— As quick as you find your horse is foun- 
dered, bleed him in the neck in proportion to the greatness 
of the founder, then r»raw his head up and give him one pint 
of salt added to one quart of water strained, then wet the 
edge of his hoofs with turpentine. 



THE HORSK AN D HIS DISEASES. 49 

For Glanders — Make a strong decoction of tobacco boiled, 
weaken it according to the symptoms, add one-third pint 
of this to one pint of water and give the quantity every third 
day. Give your horse a quarter pound of sulphur every 
fourth or fifth morning until you use two or three pounds. 
Bleed once a week for three or four weeks, at the same time 
make a week tea of burdock, yellow poplar and sassaparilla, 
and let them be his constant drink. 

For Botts — Take one pint of new milk, one pint of molas- 
ses, and drench your horse. In some twenty minutes give 
3"our horse one quart of sage tea as warm as he can drink it, 
in two or three hours give your horse one pint of linseed oil. 

For Colic — In the first place you will bleed your horse 
frejl}', then get one half ounce of lodanura, one gill ot 
whisk}', three spoonfuls of turpentine, put them in a pint bot- 
tle and fill it with warm water and then drench your horse. 

For Stifle— Take one half pound shomake bark, one half 
pound white oak bark, boil in two gallons of water down to 
two pints, bathe with the ooze twice a day for four days, 
then make a salve of the white of an egg and an ounce "^of 
rosin. Bathe in with a hot iron twice a week for two weeks. 

For Hooks — Give half a pound of salts daily for three or 
four days. Bleed three or four times lightly in eigth or ten 
days, liest your horse and feed no corn. 

Founder in Horses. I send you a receipt for founder 
in horses. It is a sure and speedy remed}-. Take a spoon- 
ful of pulverized alum, pull the horses tongue out of his 
mouth as far as possible, and throw the alum down his throat; 
let go of hift tongue and hold up his head until he swallows. 
In six hours time no matter how bad the founder, he will be 
fit for moderate service. I have seen this remedy tested so 
often with perfect success, that I would not make five dollars 
difference in a horse foundered if done recently and one that 
was net. 

To GET Horses out op a Fire. — A gentleman whose horses 
had been in great peril by fire, having in vain tried to save . 



50 THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASES. 



them, hit upon the experiment of having them harnessed, as 
though they were going to their usual work, vvhenj to his 
astonishment, they were led from the stable without diflScul- 
ly. The plan of covering their eyes with a blanket does not 
always succeed. 

The End of the Horse. 

When the horse falls, he is bled, and his blood is pre- 
served for the use of the dyer. The mane and tail are next 
cut off for the manufacture of sieves, hair cloths, and bow 
strings for the violinj the shoes are taken off for the nailer; 
the hoofs are cut off for combs and various other kinds of 
horn-work, and a portion of the feet goes to the glue-maker; 
the skin is stripped off for the tanner, who converts it into 
excellent leather for boots, harness, etc., and the collar ma- 
ker finds it, in its rough state, the best material for cart har- 
ness. The flesh is then cut up for carniverous beasts in 
menageries, or for dogs, and, though without knowing that 
they are hippophagi, (a club of horse-eaters, who regularly 
advertise their club da3'S,) some of our fellow citizens are 
regaled in the cheap eating houses of great cities with deli- 
cate bits of carcass in the form of pates, pretended beef-steaks 
or soup. When the flesh and fat have been removed, the 
stomache and intestines are laid aside for machine straps and 
strings for musical instruments, and are often sold, for the 
last purpose, as the best Naples cords; the ribs are turned 
into buttons and children's toys; the large bones are used for 
tweezers, whistles, ferules, knife handles, cups and balls, 
dominoes, etc.; the large, flat bones are of use to the toy men 
for many things; even the teeth are useful, when polished, to 
the dentist, and for many purposes for which ivory is required. 
The bones of the head are either consumed in heating furna- 
ces or crushed for manure. The remainder of the carcass is 
burnt, and by this process produces ivory-black, soot-black, 
and valuable manure. And from the fat is extracted a course 
oil which is used by mechanics. 

Ho%v to Cure Hog Cholera. 

Nearly everybody has a remedy for hog cholera but very 
few remedies are successful; as a general thing a great deal 



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depends on how hogs are fed. 1 am informed by an old far- 
mer, who has been very succesful in raising hogs and that he 
finds that the best thing to prevent it, is by keeping in 
the pen, where the hogs can run to and eat of, a box or trough 
of mixture made as follows: Three bushels of slacked ashes 
one bushel of lime, one peck of salt; mix all well together.' 
The above mixture should be kept in the pen so that the 
hogs may run to it any time. I do not think you will ever 
be bothered with worms in j-ou hogs or hog cholera. Soft 
soap and soda, mix and give to hogs when sick with chol- 
era; it never fails to cure. A gentleman informs us that he 
has cured more hogs with the above, when they were so sick 
that they could not eat anything, and he had to catch them 
and pour it down their throat. 

To Curb Blind Staggers in Hogs.— Put about a spoonful 
of coal oil in the hogs ears two days in succession; and, also 
put a little coal oil on its head, and it will be all right in a 
short time. 

Miscellaneous Receipts. 

Preservation of Milk and Cream.— Put the milk into 
bottles, then place them into a sauce pan with cold water 
and gradually raise to a boiling point; take it from the fire' 
ana instantly cork the bottles, then raise the milk once more 
to the boiling point for half a minute. Finally let the bottles 
cool in the water in which they were boiled. Milk thus 
treated will remain perfectly good for six months. Emmi- 
grants, especially those having children, will find the above 
hint add much to their comfort during their voj'age. 

Ho^v 1 Make Cider Vinegar.- I put my cider in barrels 
and let it work until it becomes thoroughlv hard. Then, im- 
mediately after the new of the moon, I empty my barrels in- 
to tubs and let the cider settle, rinsing out my barrels clean 
When the sediment has sufliciently settled l^put the clear 
cider back into the barrels, if any mother had been formed 
this is also put back. If there is no mother, in order to 
to cause it to form; I roll up a piece of writing paper and put 
this into the barrel. I then add to each barrel three gallons 
of clear rain water, sweetened somewhat sweeter than sugar 
water, and the bung holes left open. 



52 TO PATRONS. 



To Patrons • 

In conclusion, I desire to impress upon the minds of the 
public, the importance and value of this work by earnestly 
requesting that its pages may be carefully perused, and the 
receipts as given, farely tested by every familyj it gives all 
the most reliable household remedies, remedies that no family 
should be without; by its instruction akl may become their 
own physician to a certain extent; the remedies that I have 
given for all the complaints which every family is subject to, 
are invaluable, and no household should ever be found without 
them, for by their presence a good deal of suffering and 
many a dollar can be saved, and some times life, especially 
in such cases as Cholera, Cholera Infantum, Croup, etc. Al- 
so my treaties on the horse and his diseases, will be invaluable 
to all who deal in or handle horses. This I know from prac- 
tical experience. I give several receipts that are worth 
from ten tofifty times the worth of this book, which will be ac- 
knowledged by all who will test their merits; by so doing the 
value of this small work may be fully appreciated. 

To such persons as Tnay desire to engage in the sale of 
this work, either male or female, I offer very liberal induce- 
ments. Specxai terms furnished on application. Agents 
wanted in every town and county in the United States. 
This work will bo mailed free to any address on receipt of 
price; One Dollar. 

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